Happy Pisces season 🐟
Pisces is the end of the zodiacal year which implies that the sign is the oldest and holds the most wisdom—if the zodiacal year is a parable for our lives, shouldn’t that be old age? But Pisces instead is the afterlife, the everything that comes once we die, about which we know nothing—so Pisces has the greatest wisdom of knowing how much there is we don’t know.
The archetype of Pisces rules the mystical, the romantic, and the creative. Pisces rules art, spirit, and meaningful service. Pisces must do what it believes in but is open to belief changing. Pisces is the mutable water of the middle of the ocean, with water all around you and below you and heavens above.
All mutable signs are concerned with change and adaptability, and Pisces exemplifies this by being about the constancy and the fluidity of change. As the final sign in the zodiacal year, Pisces underlines that stories go beginning, middle, and change.
The difficulty of Pisces is that all that belief, all those options, all that spirituality can be overwhelming. Pisces can tend towards inertia, needing to lie on the couch for hours because it simply cannot do anything else. Whether or not you are a Pisces, you are deep in the shadows of Pisces every time the couch pit of overwhelm happens to you. The shadows of Pisces include addiction and escapism.
Pisces’ ruling planet Neptune has spent the last fourteen years in its home sign, describing both the way that a kind of woodland elf aesthetic has gotten really popular in the last decade, but also how we are doing a lot more drugs than we used to. This coincides with the legalization of Cannabis in Toronto, ketamine therapy being popularized, mushrooms being something that health influencers take, and many of us drinking rather a lot. Luckily for me, it’s also coincided with increased interest in astrology and the occult. This year Neptune moves into Aries and we enter a new 14 year Neptune cycle where belief and vision shifts to the individual, to bravery, to self expression and to action and energy. This is a bit spooky to me given *everything* but I also think it can teach us that conflict in and of itself isn’t bad, and that sometimes we simply must stand up for ourselves.
These horoscopes focus on your own Pisces side, based on your rising sign. If you don’t know your rising sign you can read for your sun sign, or read through them all and see which you identify with the most (and if you want to know why I recommend you read for your rising sign, read this.)
I hope those of you local to me are able to enjoy how pretty this snow is, and those of you not are keeping pace with the transitional season we’re in.
Amelia